The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-01-08

pital on Tuesday, from the effects Of
blood poisoning. He was.a carpenter by
! trade and had served three enlistments in
the army.
Col. F. e. Deimling, of Virginia City,
! died on the 4th. He was one of the pioneers
of Alder Gulch, and was colonel in Mis-
sourl regiment of the Union army. He
was postmaster at Virginia City for sew
eral years, and his wife now holds the
same position.
Anton Ludwig, who was supposed to
lie fatally injured, not long since, by the
explosion of giant powder caps which he
was carrying in his vest pocket, was taken
to Butte Monday for surgical treatment.
One of his ribs was removed, and the
sufferer is reported doing fairly we'll.
The Pacific express Office at Helena. has
been permanently closed, and hereafter
the Northern Pacific express will have
the field to itself. This is understood to
he the result of a compromise whereby
the Northern Pacific close their office at
Butte, and the Pacific withdraws from
Helena.
Charles Crosse, a German brewer en-
ployed by w. A. Boots, at Coulson. was
frozen to death between Billings and the
former place Saturday night. He left
Billings on foot, in an intoxicated condi-
tion, was overwhelmed in the drifts and
was found the following morning about 9
o'clock, having been dead several hours.
Pat Malony was arrai gned at Butte on
Tuesday, charged with forgery in making
a contract with Ole Moen for fuxing rock
at $3.50 per ton, presenting an agreement
to that effect, purporting to be signed by
Mr.. Gregory, of the Parrot. He realized
$500 of Moen for it. Mallory plead not
guilty and was held in $1,000 bail to
await examination.
L. o. Benedict, who has been practic-
ing law at Butte during the past year,
was arrested in that city Tuesday on tele-
graphic information from Nevada, on a
bench warrant, asking that he be held
until the arrival of an officer from that
state. 1t is understood that his crime is
irregularities which occurred while he
was treasurer of several secret societies at
Eureka, Nevada
Inter- Mountain: During the year 1886
the Anaconda company produced "a, ,OOO,-
900 pounds of copper, despite the shut
down of last summer; the Parrott IL, ,OOO,-
900, Clark's Colusa works 100000, the
Oxford between 100000 and 100000,
and the Colorado about 100000. Crude
ore shipments from other sources swell
the total to about 100000, which
amount is likely to be doubled during
1887.
The annual meeting of the territorial
teachers held at Butte last week elected
the following officers for the coming year:
President, W. W. Wylie, territorial super
intendent; vice e-president, ]. H. Meyer, of
Deer Lodge; treasurer and secretary, W.
E. Harmon, of Livingston; executive COM
mittee, C. L. Howard of Helena, T. J.
Porter of Miles City, and Miss Rilla Lay
ton of Butte The next meeting will be
held at Helena, probably during the hol
idays.
Delegate Toole on Thursday offered an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill, authorizing the commission now in
Montana negotiating with Indians for
reduction of their reservations, to make
to that end with the Crows.
The house thought the bill creating the
commission permitted dealing with the
Crows and the amendment was withdrawn.
Delegate Toole then asked the interior de-
partment to instruct the commission to
act accordingly and this will doubtless be
done.